hello all, Once again I am here to ask for wisdom to be bestowed on me. I am obviously new to perl (switching from vb), and I am having some novice troubles that the book won't fix. I need some experienced eyes to glance over my script. I am attempting to write info from a form to a txt file on my NT server. When I comment out the "write file section", my script works, but when the "write file section" is not commented out, I get an error saying, "/path/cgi-bin/script.pl produced no output." Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
use CGI qw/:standard/;

my $name = param(Name);
my $address1 = param(Address1);

################################################################
# write info to a file
 open(FILE, ">>/data.txt") || die "The database could not be opened";
 flock(FILE, 2);
 print FILE "$name\n";
 flock(FILE, 8);
 close(FILE);
################################################################

 $expires = "Tuesday, 1-Dec-2099 16:00:00 GMT";
 $path = "";
 $server_domain = "http://www.mydomain.com";

 print "Set-Cookie: ";
 print "Name", "=", $name, "; expires=", $expires,
       "; path=", $path, "; domain=", $server_domain, "\n";

 print "Address", "=", $address1, "; expires=", $expires,
       "; path=", $path, "; domain=", $server_domain, "\n";
 
       
print header;
print "<body>";
print "The following data has been sent:";
print "<font color=blue>Name:</font> $name <br>";
print "<font color=blue>Address:</font> $address1 <br>";

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update (broquaint): title change (was Writing to files)

In reply to Writing to files by rxguil

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